The Australian sugar industry is under increasing environmental pressure to improve nitrogen (N) use efficiency. This will require a greater understanding of processes affecting N availability and crop N demand in sugarcane farming systems. A field experiment was...
Researchers routinely use ‘blocking’ as a technique to reduce the natural variation within field experiments. This enables treatments to be compared without the confounding effects of differences in environmental factors such as soil type. However, it is...
Mill mud and mud ash are valuable sources of nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium) as well as having high contents of organic carbon. Pot experiments and an incubation study were carried out using three cane soils of differing textures to determine the rate of...
Sugarcane biomass is being considered as a possible alternative to non-renewable energy sources. Biomass can potentially be used to produce ethanol, second-generation biofuels and other renewable commodities and is currently used to produce electricity. Crop...
The Australian sugarcane industry is under increasing pressure to minimise losses of nutrients from the field. Inputs need to be precisely matched to crop requirements. A trial was established at Mackay to determine whether nitrogen (N) rates could be reduced...
